[Starlink] GeoFeed in the wild: A case study on StarlinkISP.net

[J Pan <Pan@uvic.ca>]

http://tinyurl.com/ip-geo-submitted to and accepted at iab ip-geo
workshop, and following dave's approach, open comments and feedback
welcome at http://tinyurl.com/ip-geo-updated . thanks

GeoFeed is very important in today's Internet to assist geo-relevant
content delivery and service differentiation, however, the adoption,
quality and use of GeoFeed vary a lot among network and content
providers, and shall be greatly improved for a more correct, accurate
and consistent user experience. This position paper focuses on a case
study on StarlinkISP.net, the Internet service
provider of Starlink.com, a division of SpaceX.com, given its fast
growth in low-earth-orbit satellite networks, demonstrating some of
the intrinsic weaknesses and problems in the current GeoFeed RFC and
practice. More importantly, the assumption that users and their PoP
are close enough cannot be guaranteed in today's Internet with the
emerging non-terrestrial networks. Thus we call for IAB and IETF,
together with network, content and IP-geo providers, to come up with
appropriate guidelines.
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J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan@UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan